The Self Quotes
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.
Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.
We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self.
So, here we are - all part of this great hologram called Creation, which is everybody else's SELF.It's all a cosmic play, and there is nothing but you!
I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.
I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts.
The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.
If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.
Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.
The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.
All service should be regarded as an offering to God, and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from God. When service is done in this spirit, it will lead to self- realization.
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
